Black Swan World

This swan is black.

BERLIN In today s global financial crisis, the image of a black swan has become a symbol for the seemingly impossible that somehow occurs, turning the world upside down. This year will afford us ample opportunity to examine the black swans that are already among us, and to prepare for the arrival of even more.

A Velvet Climate Revolution?

Velvet purple

All right, men! It's dark enough. Let's get this over with!

The black swan metaphor suggests that these events reflect difficulty in correctly assessing risks in complex systems.

To ensure a system s sustainability, its design must account for what Nassim N. Taleb called rare black swan events which, as the global economic crisis demonstrated, do occur, with devastating consequences. But measures to make systems more resilient or robust would be incomplete.

Underneath this, like the story of the swan, is a million things very difficult to do.

Natural foie gras.

Feathery wings like a swan's.

I want to talk about penguins today.

So the old man said, White swan...

And we refuse to learn the lesson of the black swan even when the next one is already visible for all to see! Although the generations alive today have witnessed two completely unexpected crises of epic proportions within the last 20 years, we indulge in a shocking collective repression of a climate disaster with far more serious and foreseeable consequences.

You'll have a red velvet coat with silver buckles on your shoes.

Denmark, we have a national bird, the swan.

It's not marabou, it's swan.

Now, what leopard seals do mostly is, they eat penguins.

And swans and peacocks and... unicorns.

Eduardo is doing what he calls natural foie gras.

What's natural about foie gras?

From Prague Spring to Velvet Revolution

Like a Mother Goose story.

Seen any Musketeers swanning about, trooper?

This has the power of an eagle, the the grace of a swan.

That nutty swan looks just like Sister Elizabeth.

He wrote a series on Penguin Balboa, which is a fighting a boxing penguin.

To take advantage of when the temperature drops in the fall, geese and ducks gorge on food to prepare for the harsh realities of winter.

It's like the DNA of a goose is to fly south in the winter, right?

And they slaughtered them, used the fat throughout the winter for cooking.

Red velvet. It's that or nothing.

Loud and clear, Mother Goose. What is it?

And his geese are calling up now to the wild geese.

And they saw in the fall that there was this natural, beautiful, sweet, delicious fat from geese.

And the main thing learned during the Apollo Sea rescue in '94 was that most of those penguins had died due to the unwitting use of poorly ventilated transport boxes and trucks because they just had not been prepared to deal with so many oiled penguins at once.

And have you had any difficulty getting into our velvet rope restaurants?

And exactly six years and three days earlier, on June 20th, 1994, a ship named the Apollo Sea sank near Dassen Island, oiling 10,000 penguins half of which died.

Whole day event

No. You? Are you the guy with the huckleberry wine?

Penguins are real athletes They can swim 173 kilometers in a day.

You wouldn't think that once I had skin like velvet.

We haven't been to the movies since we saw Dream Girl.

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It's getting dark.

It's getting late.